Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg
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It is amazing how many companies rely on ffmpeg and built their businesses around it.

They could switch to another tool...until you realize that other tool is just a wrapper for ffmpeg underneath

They could use vapoursynth + the official encoders. But at that point you're programming your own processing pipelines.

It’s amazing how many companies rely on a crazy amount of FOSS libs, etc.

In the relatively recent past, a boss who I had software PMd for across numerous years had the unmitigated gall to ask me for a list of licenses for “all the software we used.”

I literally laughed in his face, explained open source and the rabbit hole such a question goes down, and he just couldn’t (wouldn’t) get it.

Unfortunately, the biz side of the house doesn’t like “yeah, it’s all legal, but fuck you if you think I’m documenting every piece of code in every library in a ten plus year old code base, allllllll the way down.”